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placed once more in the press for 24 hours.The cheese was then placed on the swinging shelf, after being numhered and buttered to help its curing. The cheese had to be greased and turned over every other day. It took six weeks for even a small cheese to cure and ripen enough to eat. By the end of the season, the average dairy usually had produced 60 to 75 cheese, weighing from 30 to 40 pounds each, along with a quantity of hutter to keep for winter, in addition to the butter that had been traded or sold. There was always ready sale for these dairy products to travelers going to and from California and particularly to the mining camps of Pioche and Silver Reef. Often the only ready cash the family had came from thesale of dairy products. Dairying was a period of grueling hard work. Each woman, running her househould in isolation, had to be ready to meet every emergency with the humans and animals in her charge. Some women acquired considerable skill in doctoring, out of necessity. They also had good times. The women took pride in their work and competed in friendly manner to see who could get their tasks done earliest in the day. .After the work was done, the families often rode horses to the neighbors to visit during the after noon. It was a joyous occasion when the father arrived from town bringing supplies, with maybe a special treat of fruit and randy for the children. And then there was that special something ahout the mountains that entered the soul of anyone who ever lived there, never to be forgotten. T h e beauty and peace of the scenery, the pungent odors of the milkhouse, the morning dew, yarrow mint, willows, wild flowers, the corral and the sound of the wind soughing through the pines, the bird calls, the buzzing inserts, the hawling calves and answering cows, and finally, the soul-satisfying rapport that existed between the humans and the animals in this enterprise.' While staying at Jones Hollow, Lehi and Hcnrietta hired a young boy about 13 or 14 yean of age, named M'ill Simpkins, to help herd the cows. Daniel Leigh's wife was living ahout a mile away, homesteading also. I n that area there were quite a numher of hears which came from the Black Hills, and they often got into the cattle. One night, when the calves were out and the rows had been put in the pasture, there was quite a rommotion in the corral and Henrietta could hear the cows stomping and bellering. Lehi was~intown and Henrietta's mother, Mary Ann Lunt, who often stayed with her in the summer, was there. T h e two women, with Will Simpkins, loaded the old flintlock and took the lantern and went out. l'hey were certain that a hear would he there because the cattle never acted up that way otherwise. When they reached the edge of the corral, they rould see the hear, all right, with his paws up on the fence. It was difficult to see when the lantern was held out in front, so
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placed once more in the press for 24 hours.The cheese was then placed on the swinging shelf, after being numhered and buttered to help its curing. The cheese had to be greased and turned over every other day. It took six weeks for even a small cheese to cure and ripen enough to eat. By the end of the season, the average dairy usually had produced 60 to 75 cheese, weighing from 30 to 40 pounds each, along with a quantity of hutter to keep for winter, in addition to the butter that had been traded or sold. There was always ready sale for these dairy products to travelers going to and from California and particularly to the mining camps of Pioche and Silver Reef. Often the only ready cash the family had came from thesale of dairy products. Dairying was a period of grueling hard work. Each woman, running her househould in isolation, had to be ready to meet every emergency with the humans and animals in her charge. Some women acquired considerable skill in doctoring, out of necessity. They also had good times. The women took pride in their work and competed in friendly manner to see who could get their tasks done earliest in the day. .After the work was done, the families often rode horses to the neighbors to visit during the after noon. It was a joyous occasion when the father arrived from town bringing supplies, with maybe a special treat of fruit and randy for the children. And then there was that special something ahout the mountains that entered the soul of anyone who ever lived there, never to be forgotten. T h e beauty and peace of the scenery, the pungent odors of the milkhouse, the morning dew, yarrow mint, willows, wild flowers, the corral and the sound of the wind soughing through the pines, the bird calls, the buzzing inserts, the hawling calves and answering cows, and finally, the soul-satisfying rapport that existed between the humans and the animals in this enterprise.' While staying at Jones Hollow, Lehi and Hcnrietta hired a young boy about 13 or 14 yean of age, named M'ill Simpkins, to help herd the cows. Daniel Leigh's wife was living ahout a mile away, homesteading also. I n that area there were quite a numher of hears which came from the Black Hills, and they often got into the cattle. One night, when the calves were out and the rows had been put in the pasture, there was quite a rommotion in the corral and Henrietta could hear the cows stomping and bellering. Lehi was~intown and Henrietta's mother, Mary Ann Lunt, who often stayed with her in the summer, was there. T h e two women, with Will Simpkins, loaded the old flintlock and took the lantern and went out. l'hey were certain that a hear would he there because the cattle never acted up that way otherwise. When they reached the edge of the corral, they rould see the hear, all right, with his paws up on the fence. It was difficult to see when the lantern was held out in front, so
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